Question

Suppose
that you want to test the claim that the mean weight of ocelots is
30 pounds or less. You collect a sample of 100 ocelots and find
that the mean weight in the sample is 30.8 pounds. The standard
deviation is 4 pounds.

Part
(a)
(3 points)

Please
consider the following statement: %u201CSince the sample mean is
greater than the claimed population mean, it is not necessary to
carry out a hypothesis test and we can just reject the null
hypothesis.%u201D